Data Engineer (Freelancer)

Soul Ai; Kolkata District; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Above market pay

Contract-based

Freelancing

Job summary

Soul AI invites India-based Data Engineers to join a community-driven opportunity to design, build, and optimize enterprise-scale data platforms. You will work with industry leaders to craft scalable pipelines and governance practices that enable analytics and ML at scale.

Remotely or onsite with client locations, the role offers above-market compensation and a contract timeline of 2–12 months or freelancing.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building and optimizing data pipelines at scale.
• Proficiency with Python, Scala or Java and distributed data tech.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and data warehousing.
• Hands-on with CI/CD and DevOps/DataOps for data systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect enterprise-scale data platforms, integrating diverse data sources and tools.
• Develop real-time and batch data pipelines to support analytics and ML.
• Define and enforce data governance to ensure security, integrity and compliance.
• Implement real-time streaming solutions (Kafka, Kinesis, Flink) and DevOps/DataOps practices.

Skills

Python

Scala

Java

Distributed data systems

Data pipelines design

Apache Spark

Hadoop

Flink

Kafka

AWS

Azure

GCP

Snowflake

Redshift

BigQuery

CI/CD

Terraform

Kubernetes

Airflow

Prometheus

Grafana

Tools

Apache Spark

Hadoop

Flink

Kafka

Snowflake

Redshift

BigQuery

Terraform

CloudFormation

Airflow

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Step into the world of AI innovation with the Experts Community of Soul AI (By Deccan AI).

We are looking for Indias top 1% Data Engineers for a unique job opportunity to work with the industry leaders.

Who can be a part of the community.

We are looking for top-tier Data Engineers who are proficient in designing, building and optimizing data pipelines. If you have experience in this field then this is your chance to collaborate with industry leaders.

Whats in it for you.

• Pay above market standards.
• The role is going to be contract based with project timelines from 2 12 months, or freelancing.

Be a part of an Elite Community of professionals who can solve complex AI challenges.

Work location could be.

• Remote (Highly likely).
• Onsite on client location.
• Deccan AIs OfficeHyderabad or Bangalore.

Responsibilities.

• Design and architect enterprise-scale data platforms, integrating diverse data sources and tools.
• Develop real-time and batch data pipelines to support analytics and machine learning.
• Define and enforce data governance strategies to ensure security, integrity, and compliance along with optimizing data pipelines for high performance, scalability, and cost efficiency in cloud environments.
• Implement solutions for real-time streaming data (Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Apache Flink) and adopt DevOps/DataOps best practices.

Required

Skills:

• Strong experience in designing scalable, distributed data systems and programming (Python, Scala, Java) with expertise in Apache Spark, Hadoop, Flink, Kafka, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proficient in data modeling, governance, warehousing (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery), and security/compliance standards (GDPR, HIPAA).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Airflow, Kubernetes) and data infrastructure optimization (Prometheus, Grafana).

Nice to Have.

• Experience with graph databases, machine learning pipeline integration, real-time analytics, and IoT solutions.
• Contributions to open-source data engineering communities.